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Show raESIDDIiT HUCIIAIIAIi m a ui;io;rs DUTY NEW YORK. April lS.-An official address ad-dress by President Frank Buchanan of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron "Workers, has been presented at meetings of the local union. After discussing the arbitration agre-rDTit agre-rDTit In effect here, the president says: "I am hopeful that tha member f the international association will be benefited by their coetly experience In New York, and be more watchful to see that the union dictates to the business arents Instead In-stead of permitting a few Individuals to tha onion. Cut out good-fellowship and personal friendship and select, men oa their merits. "Our assool-Jlon should keep agreements agree-ments Inviolate. A fair agreement means a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. The men who are trying to use the union to hold their Jobs wban they axe unaWe or unwilling to do a fair day's work te a workmanlike way are enemies to the rrinciples that trades unionism is founded vpon. aad an organisation that wfll permit its strength to be used for such purposes will coma to grief in the end. |